Terror Attack

The Jathedar (head priest) of Akal Takht (the highest temporal seat of Sikhs) was talking to the media in Amritsar on the 36th anniversary of Operation Bluestar, which was carried out in 1984 to flush out heavily-armed terrorists holed up in the Golden Temple.

The police chief said the militant commander belonged to Multan in Pakistan. He had been active in the Valley for quite some time. He was active during the 2019 suicide attack on the CRPF convoy in Pulwama.

The US and UK raised the issue of China's controversial security law for Hong Kong during an emergency discussion in the Security Council, angering Beijing which said the UN organ should instead pay attention to the US' excessive use of force against protesters in Minneapolis.

The Jammu and Kashmir Police which is probing the foiled car bomb attack case has found similarities in modus operandi and nature of explosives that were used in the suicide bombing in Pulwama in 2019.

The police officer said on Friday that the Santro car, which was laden with about 45 kg of explosives to carry out a 2019 Pulwama-style terror attack, belonged to a Hizbul Mujahideen militant, identified as Hidayatullah Malik.

Security forces on Thursday averted a major tragedy as they foiled a bid to set up a car-borne IED, containing about 45 kgs of explosives, in Pulwama district. IG, Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said the militants of Hizb-ul Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Mohammad were working together to target the security forces.